It's Monday March 1st. I'm Achila Hughes.

And I'm getting a rest again. This is what the day where our goal this month is to sit in a new chair.

Yeah, I just found a chair over in my living room that I completely ignored. I thought it was just a shelf for blankets, but I'm going to give it a shot.

I've had a close chair for probably like 15 years of my life and it's time to use it.

On today's show, Voting Rights at the Supreme Court, Ben some headlines.

But first, the latest.

The message that needs to be prevailed, Dana, is that these are three highly efficacious vaccines.

I can tell you I have been fully vaccinated with one that was available. It was the Moderna.

If I were not vaccinated now and I had a choice of getting a J and J vaccine now or waiting for another vaccine, I would take whatever vaccine would be available to me as quickly as possible.

Yo, those are facts and I agree with that.

But that was Dr. Fauci on CNN yesterday talking about the newly authorized Johnson and Johnson vaccine.

And encouraging Americans to get whichever of the three currently available vaccines that they can.

This week, the first few million doses of Johnson and Johnson are going to be shipped out.

This is all happening as the US is hitting new highs and doses getting into big beautiful biceps every day.

So get in big picture. Where do we stand at the moment in the pandemic?

We stand at a pretty good place. I mean, considering all we've been through, you know, week by week things have been progressing in the right direction, which definitely feels good to say and feel after all this time.

And the Johnson and Johnson authorization is the latest example of that.

But to Fauci's point about the vaccines overall, the reason that we're hearing him and other public health experts telling people to get whichever vaccine becomes available is kind of twofold at least.

So first, of course, it's to help us reach herd immunity faster.

The more people that are protected at varying degrees, the fewer places the virus has to go.

And second, that all three vaccines are massively, massively successful at preventing hospitalization and death from COVID-19 point blank.

Even if the top line numbers for mild disease are somewhat different separately.

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